Right, except nothing that I said conveyed any sort of gushing "love" for Microsoft or proprietary versus any other software.

Listing "it's proprietary" immediately before "it's slow" OTOH? Yeah, it's pretty telling where that comment is coming from.

If you don't like it, why come out of your way to make a negative comment about it unless you're just being a hater?

> If you don't like it, why come out of your way to make a negative comment about it unless you're just being a hater?

Intellectual honesty cannot coexist alongside zealotry.